I was rear-ended last week in stop-and-go traffic on my way to taiko practice. I’m okay; Grethe the Jetta is mostly okay, but she needs some body work. At the time I was mostly annoyed about being late to taiko. On Mondays I can already only practice for an hour before I have to go to an evening class. Making me miss the first twenty minutes, too? Oh no she didn’t. *does the snappy thing, poorly*

A few days later, though, I got a phone call back from the insurance agent I’d filed the claim with that started, “Those people who hit you? They’re a couple of liars.”

Apparently the girl whose policy it was first said that her sister was driving, then tried to file a medical claim for her sister, only to be told that all she had was liability coverage. At some point she changed her story and said that she herself had been driving. Or something like that. At least she admitted fault. I think.

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For the few of you who haven’t heard through email, text message, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, but mostly so this momentous occasion doesn’t get left out of my blog, John and I got engaged last week on our trip to Colorado. Squee!

Before we started planning the vacation, we’d talked about how we might be able to move our conjectural wedding date up six months or so from what we’d thought, so I suspected a proposal was coming, but I didn’t know exactly when.

On our first full day in Colorado, John picked out a hike for us up towards Pacific Peak, thanks to this handy website. The weather was perfect, and the views of mountains and blue sky all around were breathtaking.

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